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… seems just a few years ago.

Kyle:

On May 6th, I turned 30. In celebration, I ran 33km’s. It was my longest run yet and it felt pretty awesome. …

While running, I had some time to think and ponder what entering my 30′s means to me. …

In my 30′s, I will:

Be FEARLESS

Be decisive

Let go of my perfectionism

Manage my time and energy more wisely

Make health and activity my #1 priorities

Take on new scary audacious challenges

Stop trying to please everyone

Have more productive screen time

Simplify email: I’m checking it twice a day and that’s it.

Take BIG risks

Create opportunities rather than wait for them to happen

Do things rather than think about doing them

Publish books

Finish what I’ve started

Re-organize and down-size

Take more pictures

Have more dinner parties

Have less stress

Be more appreciative

Enjoy my life

KyleShewfelt.com – Thirties Manifesto

Wise beyond his years.

Kyle:

… I both hated and loved the next 45 minutes of my existence. I hated the fact that it was cold, slippery and lonely and that my eye balls were being pummelled by snowflakes. But I loved the fact that I was out there pounding through my sets and feeling the burn. With each journey up the stairs/hill, the layer of snow got thicker on the ground, but my mission got more empowered. …

read more – Hardcore Hills!

He’s the world’s oldest marathon runner – and at the grand old age of 100, Fauja Singh is certainly showing no signs of slowing down.

The quick-footed centenarian, who has completed seven marathons since turning 89, has become the first person to sign up to the 2012 Edinburgh race. And he has revealed the key to conquering his daily 10-mile training regime is eating plenty of ginger curry and drinking copious amounts of tea. …

read more on I <3 to run on Facebook.

Saskatchewan Legislative Building, Wascana Lake

The weather has been so good, a lot of tourists like myself are getting out.

Kottke linked to an important Daily Beast article:

Ten years after his seminal book Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser reflects on how little has changed in the production, safety, and consumption in America—but why he’s still hopeful.

Every day about 65 million people eat at a McDonald’s restaurant somewhere in the world, more than ever before. The annual revenues of America’s fast-food industry, adjusted for inflation, have risen by about 20 percent since 2001. …

About two thirds of the adults in the United States are obese or overweight. The obesity rate among preschoolers has doubled in the past 30 years. The rate among children aged 6 to 11 has tripled. And by some odd coincidence, the annual cost of the nation’s obesity epidemic — about $168 billion, as calculated by researchers at Emory University — is the same as the amount of money Americans spent on fast food in 2011. …

Still a Fast-Food Nation: Eric Schlosser Reflects on 10 Years Later

If you’ve never read Fast Food Nation, the Kindle edition is only $3.99.

It’s not easy being an obese child, as 3yr-old Leslie Downes found out in 1935.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Kottke)

Certainly kids need to exercise more. Eat less. But how’s that going to happen?

I’ve always assumed that most of the conventional wisdom is wrong.

This article — for me — rings true — what we are doing now is NOT WORKING.

Dr. Dwight Lundell:

… I freely admit to being wrong. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact. …

Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes. These disorders are affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers every year. …

What are the biggest culprits …

highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour and all the products made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower that are found in many processed foods …

There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning to foods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits and vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation- causing omega-6 fats like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them. …

What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served …

Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease

Lisa organized in-suite massage and facial treatments.

The wealthy are not like you and me. They hot tub with vistas like this …

Back at the Adlard’s Candle in the Woods log house, I got 12hrs of sleep. Catching up for some short nights during the meet.

I chased Dave around the back roads one afternoon.

more post Gym Fest photos

How many people have been SUPER SIZED by McDonalds?

Dave Adlard treated me to a work-out at the Krok, Couer d’Alene. Terrific good facility.

… When Joan Kroc died in October 2003, she left $1.5 billion – much of her estate – to The Salvation Army, by far the largest charitable gift ever given to the Army, and the largest single gift given to any charity at one time.

… The money was designated to build a series of state-of-the-art Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Centers nationwide …

… By the end of 2009, the Army operated six centers across the country in Ashland, OH; Atlanta, GA; Coeur d’Alene, ID; Omaha, NE; Salem, OR; and San Francisco, CA. Seven more centers followed in 2010 …

Many more were scheduled for 2011 and 2012. …

Watch a Facilities Video on the Coeur d’Alene branch.

I jog most of the time. Listening to my book on audio. And stopping frequently to take photos.

One of the best days was at Englishman River Falls Provincial Park near my parent’s place in Parksville, B.C.

Turns out ‘winter’ in the Pacific N.W. is beautiful.

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